Endangered
Osornophryne antisana
Osornophryne antisana
Osornophryne antisana is a toad in the family Bufonidae (order Anura), recorded as Endangered and tied to Ecuador.
Appearance
The back is yellow to dark or greyish-brown. The snout-vent length is up to 19 millimetres (0.75 in) in males, and up to 29 millimetres (1.1 in) in females.
Range and habitat
The species is endemic to Ecuador's Cordillera Real mountains. It is found at elevations of 2,609–4,128 metres (8,560–13,543 ft), and has an extent of occurrence around 2,930 square kilometres (1,130 sq mi). The species is found near lakes, and in Páramo and forest habitats.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Calling males and egg sites define most frog field work. A species known from one ridge is as narrow as it sounds.
Eggs and damp skin make amphibians quick to vanish from a drained wetland or a forest stripped of litter.
In crisis
It is threatened by habitat loss. Osornophryne antisana is classified as endangered. The species may also be threatened by pollution and fires.
Chytrid fungus, collection, and wet-forest loss are the usual pressures on frogs with a high threat category.
Osornophryne antisana is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Osornophryne antisana, Wikidata item Q2236790. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
